Tag Archives: Superman

Free Speech, Justice for a Super-Fan, and The Bard Himself Takes the Stage: A mid-November News Update

Comic Books have long been at the forefront of battles over censorship and freedom of speech in contemporary literature, and a new press release this past week from the Comic Legends Legal Defense Fund reaffirms their commitment to the cause.
Justice was meted out yesterday as the assclown who robbed a mentally disabled Superman super-fan of thousands of dollars worth of comics and collectibles pertaining to the Man of Steel received his sentencing.
Perhaps inevitably, Kill Shakespeare gets a live stage adaptation.

Hugo and Harry Kremer Awards, The End of New Reliable and a Milestone for Action Comics

Oh hey guys, thanks for dropping by the Fabler. We hope you enjoyed the last month or so worth of comic creator profiles and interviews, and this week we’re coming at you with a more news-y post.

Coming atcha. Coming at-cha. Yeaahhh.

There are a few cool things worthy of note in this week’s comics round-ups found around the web, but before I get to those, I wanted to mention how unbelievably rad it is that Adriana Blake (of the webcomic Fall On Me) took the time to translate my entire interview with her into Spanish!

Leave it to Marvel to kick off the new decade with a high-profile lawsuit.

Marvel is suing Jack Kirby’s heirs over their notice to terminate a number of copyrights beginning in 2014. We provide CONTEXT and CLARITY into the issue for those CURIOUS about COPYRIGHT issues in COMICS.
Today is a day for alliterating the letter C.